5.5

CVE-2024-38597

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks

Erhard reports netpoll warnings from sungem:

  netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(): eth0 enabled interrupts in poll (gem_start_xmit+0x0/0x398)
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at net/core/netpoll.c:370 netpoll_send_skb+0x1fc/0x20c

gem_poll_controller() disables interrupts, which may sleep.
We can't sleep in netpoll, it has interrupts disabled completely.
Strangely, gem_poll_controller() doesn't even poll the completions,
and instead acts as if an interrupt has fired so it just schedules
NAPI and exits. None of this has been necessary for years, since
netpoll invokes NAPI directly.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.1 < 5.10.219
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.161
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.93
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.33
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.8.12
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.9 < 6.9.3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.016
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.